Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), August 2020

by: sciencewithtom
text: REMOTE | San Francisco, CA | New EdTech Product | Contract Work<p>8th Grade Science Teacher and founder of &quot;Science With Tom&quot; looking for a full stack developer for an Ed Tech product that combines science, hip hop ed, and student creativity. The scope of the project is about 300 hours total, building a full stack web app based on mockups by a professional designer. Two experienced developers on the team are available to provide support. If you&#x27;re a good fit, open to discussing equity and&#x2F;or co-founding.<p>Front-end: React or similar. Javascript experience necessary. Back-end: JS or python preferred.<p>Please send resume &#x2F; github &#x2F; portfolio to tom@sciencewithtom.com

by: socialist_coder
text: (short term) | Global, Preferably Pacific Timezone (PST), Good English Communication | Remote Only<p>We have a new node.js &#x2F; nginx app running in AWS and need it hooked up to an monitoring &#x2F; alerting system, such as Grafana &#x2F; Prometheus.<p>We have not used Grafana and Prometheus before and are looking for someone experienced with them and can recommend the right configurations for our use case. We were using Datadog in the past but want to transition off.<p>There are broadly two categories of events to track:<p><pre><code>  1. Default webserver and app metrics for node.js and nginx (cpus, memory, network activity, etc)
  2. Application level custom metrics (number of connected players, number of transactions, etc). We want the system to support us creating new custom stats relatively easily.
</code></pre>
Then, we want to have dashboards and alerts setup on these metrics.<p>We think the high level task breakdown might be:<p><pre><code>  * stand up Grafana &#x2F; Prometheus server in AWS for real time metrics collection
  * hook up server side node.js &#x2F; nginx &#x2F; host level perf metrics
  * hook up server side node.js error monitoring
  * hook up server side custom metrics
  * setup charts, dashboards, and alerts in grafana&#x2F;prometheus
  * setup alerts going to our Slack &amp; our Pagerduty
  * document instructions on how to add new events, as well as key routine maintenance instructions
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Maybe Grafana &#x2F; Prometheus is not the right tool? Recommend something else!<p>This is a short term contract.<p>email: taylor@foxcubgames.com

by: SarahUX
text: REMOTE (Concord, Massachusetts)<p>The product: Aurora is a digital platform designed to help women early in their careers thrive and rise. It launched earlier this year and we&#x27;ve got a lot more to build.<p>Who we are: reacHIRE, a startup that partners with forward-thinking companies to create gender-diverse environments where women thrive, advance, lead, and stay. We&#x27;re a small team (&lt; 10) looking to grow.<p>UI&#x2F;Interaction Designer: 100% remote. Contracting role for 15-20 hours per week for 12-16 weeks, with the possibility to extend if it’s a good fit on both sides. We can be flexible on hours and duration for the right candidate. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weworkremotely.com&#x2F;remote-jobs&#x2F;reachire-ux-ui-interaction-designer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weworkremotely.com&#x2F;remote-jobs&#x2F;reachire-ux-ui-intera...</a><p>Front-End Developer: full time, 100% remote. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weworkremotely.com&#x2F;remote-jobs&#x2F;reachire-front-end-developer-remote" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weworkremotely.com&#x2F;remote-jobs&#x2F;reachire-front-end-de...</a><p>Feel free to reach out to me personally with questions! shouseholder@reachire.com

by: CaioFer
text: SEEKING FREELANCER&#x2F;WORK, Brazil, Remote OK, c410.f3r (at) gmail.com<p>Software engineer with a Bachelor&#x27;s degree in Computer Science and over ten years of experience in several technologies and programming languages. There are two fields where I mainly act: (1) DevOps; from database administration and data modeling to back-end programming or front-end design all the way to orchestrated deployment with latest tech and (2) Standalone software; involves embedded development in restrict environments, blockchain applications mostly related to Parity&#x27;s Substrate and plain command-line interfaces.<p>On the open-source side of things, I regularly contribute to several projects, helping and communicating with other developers. Take a look at the available coding portfolio in my GitHub profile at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;c410-f3r" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;c410-f3r</a> where my latest public collaborations are more focused on the Rust Programming Language ecosystem.<p>Seven professional certifications were obtained from different organizations like the Linux Foundation and the Blockchain Training Alliance that covers a wide range of areas. My newest certification is the Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK), more certifications will be earned over time and I can get any other desired certification if needed.<p>To finish, IT in general is like a living organism that is constantly changing, that is why I am always looking forward for a new challenge to increase knowledge. For example, my proudest project is a constrained NP-problem solver compiled to WASM (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c410-f3r.github.io&#x2F;mop-playground" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c410-f3r.github.io&#x2F;mop-playground</a>) where I spent years reading scientific articles to write efficient data-structures and algorithms.

by: promptworks
text: Philadelphia &amp; New York | Local &amp; Remote US We are a development shop that focuses on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web &amp; mobile applications, APIs, products, and services. Pair programming, continuous integration &amp; delivery, kaizen, and TDD&#x2F;BDD aren&#x27;t just ideas we pay lip service to, but core practices of our day-to-day work. We love polyglots. We use lots of Ruby, Python, Elixir, and JavaScript (mostly TypeScript, React and React-Native).
Local only:<p><pre><code>    • Ruby &amp; Rails
    • Python
    • iOS
    • Elixir &amp; Phoenix 
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Local &amp; Remote:<p><pre><code>    • React Native
    • Android
    • Azure, especially with Kubernetes &amp; Terraform
    • ML, AI, &amp; Data Science
    • Kafka
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How to get in touch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.promptworks.com&#x2F;contracting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.promptworks.com&#x2F;contracting</a>

by: ianlwang
text: (short term) | Global, Preferably Pacific Timezone (PST), Good English Communication | Remote Only<p>We want to create a new app that imports AWS SQS events into an AWS Aurora Postgres instance using AWS Serverless Lambda (Typescript).<p>There are 2 pieces to this work. The 1st piece is adding tracking events to our existing node.js Typescript backend.<p><pre><code>  * Create a TrackingEvent class
  * Set up the server to create TrackingEvent objects when the appropriate action has happened
  * Serialize the TrackingEvent object and send to SQS
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The 2nd piece is creating a new AWS Serverless (Typescript) app that loads the events.<p><pre><code>  * Read a chunk of events from an SQS queue
  * Write them to a file in S3
  * Import the file into our AWS Aurora Postgres data warehouse instance
  * Copy or move the file into a permanent S3 location for backup
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If you can build this and want to start immediately, shoot me an email and we can discuss it!<p>email: ian@foxcubgames.com

by: nk-
text: UK | Remote, UK preferred<p>----<p>(Modern) PHP web development - I have a project building a new PHP 7 API framework that integrates with my existing user management system and supports OAuth2. I&#x27;m looking for someone who can write clean, modern code following good coding practices and standards.<p>----<p>Web design &#x2F; UX - Looking for someone who can review the design&#x2F;layout&#x2F;UI of an existing website, make suggestions for improvements, and then potentially also make the necessary changes. Knowledge in HTML&#x2F;CSS would be good, experience with SASS would be a bonus.<p>----<p>Initial work would be limited to these projects, but there will be more work like this in the future. I&#x27;m operating as a Limited company, so will require a proper invoice etc.<p>Happy to provide more details via email: nkhn@fastmail.com

by: ritchiea
text: Berlin, Germany | Remote possible (within a few hours of Central European time) but onsite preferred<p>We&#x27;re building a platform for investors to invest in small to medium sized enterprises. We&#x27;re looking for one or two freelancers with a history of shipping SPAs in React&#x2F;Next.js or backends with Java Spring Boot. We&#x27;re also looking for fulltime hires but in the short term we&#x27;d like to ship some very basic functionality as an MVP. Strong English communication skills are a must. Email andrew.ritchie@arbourglobal.com

by: JonAtkinson
text: SEEKING FREELANCER, Remote, GMT+\-2<p>We are a digital agency business, with a strong engineer-first culture. We do things properly, not quickly.<p>We are seeking a freelance software engineer with a strong record delivering Android apps. We are looking to build an application as part of an approx. 12 week contract. My team is delivering the database, API, and web frontend. We have other Android work and hopefully a longer-term engagement for the right person.<p>Email me jon@giantmade.com for more information. See also giantmade.com and engineering.giantmade.com for context.

by: fovc
text: REMOTE<p>Looking for a freelancer with experience using proof assistants to help formalize and debug a couple of complex algorithms we&#x27;ve developed. Don&#x27;t have a strong preference for a particular proof system, but will ask about your preference and why.<p>Keyword bingo: formal methods, coq, agda, isabelle, idris, proof assistant

by: embrangler
text: Boulder, CO | Remote | US Time Zone
At Uplift, we&#x27;re looking for a well rounded software engineer, experienced in the following:<p>Backend Java engineer, full-time (30+hrs&#x2F;wk):<p>* Spring framework<p>* MongoDb or NoSQL<p>* jUnit, unit tests, mocking, TDD, CI&#x2F;CD<p>* Troubleshoot production issues<p>* Bonus: GCP<p>To apply:<p>* Location and preferred working hours<p>* Details about your experience with the above skills &amp; technologies.<p>Email hn@uplift.ltd

by: sawpaw
text: Remote or Los Angeles | Scala<p>Looking for a seasoned scala developer to help us with one of our clients backend applications. We are doing a bunch of frontend work for them and they now need some backend hands. Ongoing contract!<p>Who we are: www.fullsend.io<p>email apply@fullsend.io if interested

by: sparrish
text: 
Remote only 
Need experienced WHMCS developer for on-going contract work. 
Email: info@nodeping.com

by: johnomarkid
text: Distributed US&#x2F;EU | Remote Only<p>Looking for a full stack React&#x2F;Node.js developer with a few years of experience. You should be comfortable building features end to end, and communicating clearly. Experience with CDNs, server side rendering of react templates, and postgres are a plus.<p>We are a small publishing company running a custom CMS built for speed. As we acquire new sites, we need help scaling our infrastructure and building out new features and templates.<p>You&#x27;d be joining a small team of 3 engineers working fully remote and asynchronously.<p>Your rate: $40-$50 &#x2F; hour depending on experience. We need someone working full time (40hr&#x2F;week) for at least the rest of the year, and likely longer.<p>john.omar@hey.com

by: tpae
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote (Flexible Timezone)<p>We&#x27;re a team working on several projects looking for more members. Our primary stack is React&#x2F;TypeScript&#x2F;Firebase, building products in the industries of Ed Tech, Blockchain, and Entertainment.<p>We&#x27;re a team of industry veterans, have built and launched successful products all around the world. We&#x27;re looking for full-stack engineers who are highly independent and effective in executing and implementing big ideas.<p>Please reach out to me via Discord tpae#2738 or email tpae@hey.com with your resume and code samples.